On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 00:16, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes: > > "A suffix ~<n> to a revision parameter means the commit object that > > is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named commit object, > > following only the first parent. I.e. rev~3 is equivalent to rev^ which > > is equivalent to rev11^1." > > > > Why is rev~3 equivalent to rev^, surely it is equivalent to rev^^^ > > > > Why is rev~3 equivalent to rev11^1, should that not be rev^1^1^1 > > Sorry, for not knowing how to do that properly in Asciidoc ;-). > > The source to the man page and HTML page reads like this: > > * A suffix '~<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit > object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named > commit object, following only the first parent. I.e. rev~3 is > equivalent to rev^^^ which is equivalent to rev^1^1^1. No the HTML page is screwed up too. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Oct 06 09:34:23 2005
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